Search Committees
Assistant Professor iN African American Studies
Search Committee
Minutes
December 11, 2007
Documentation of Policies and procedures for African American Studies Search, job number 00024176.
Approval of ad for possible recruitment of a position in African American Studies occurred on September 4, 2007 meeting of the faculty.
- Authorization received October 2, 2007
- Members of the Committee, authorization African American Studies Committee meeting, on November 13, 2007: Willie Barber, William Conwill, James Davison, and Stephanie Evans, Faye Harrison, Director, Ex Officio, and Carolyn Lebron, Ex Officio
- Faculty Recruitment Toolkit certification update
- List of five document completed November 14, 2007
- Job advertisement posted, November 20, 2007
Basic Procedural Standards
- State sunshine law and committee communications (all emails about the search are public)
- posting of subsequent committee in the Spring meeting prior to the meeting, 3 to 7 day notice. This is an organizational first official meeting
- Viable Outreach Process report prior to on-campus interviews
- Approval of short list by the Dean prior to campus interviews
- Electronic self-disclosure cards or acknowledgement in applicant's receipt of document letter
- Minimum time of Advertisement
- Documentation of files and correspondence (Sharon will help with these files)
- Recommendations of the Dean must come with Recruitment Compliance Report
Advertisement
- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, hard copy
- Chronicle of Higher Education, hard copy
- Listserves, H-Net Discussion List for AAS
- Paul Roper, AFMA-L Listserv (African American Research and Discussions)
Needed:- Immediate documentation of listservs related to ad and minorities and women
- Important for documentation of Viable Outreach Process. This is important beyond the two hard copy ads
- We need to extend the deadline of search to January 31, 2007